Denise Holstein
1927–2024
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer
Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 â 16 November 2024) was a French Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Bergen-Belsen concentration campDates unknown
- Drancy concentration campDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Bergen-Belsen concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 â 16 November 2024) was a French Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein tells her story in two books and in a documentary made by a student from the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. For almost fifty years, Holstein never spoke about her life before writing about it. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein visited school children, to describe and share her experiences.
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